The department also includes community dentistry which aims at interacting with the community to promote awareness about dental health, conduct surveys for collecting epidemiological data and prevent dental disease. The undergraduate students are taught to use various periodontal instruments in order to carry out regular periodontal work as outlined below, which is useful in everyday general dental practice. Interns are given training in some specialized work as well in order to help them to integrate a little specialized periodontics with their dental practice.